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Sound of the Ax: Aphorisms and Poems
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Product Description: Sound of the Ax brings together for the first time over four hundred aphorisms and twenty-six aphoristic poems by one of America’s most essential poets of the twentieth century. Many readers are familiar with the trenchant nature of William Stafford’s poems, with lines such as “Justice will take us millions of intricate moves” and “Your job is to find what the world is trying to be,” but have never had the opportunity to read a sustained selection from the thousands of wise, witty, and penetrating statements he created in over forty years of daily writing in his journal...read more
By Paul Merchant (editor), William Stafford and Vincent Wixon (editor)
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9780822962960 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, February 10, 2014, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Sound of the Ax brings together for the first time over four hundred aphorisms and twenty-six aphoristic poems by one of America’s most essential poets of the twentieth century.

Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems
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Product Description: "In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." ―Naomi Shihab NyeSome time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life...read more
By Kim Stafford (editor) and William Stafford
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9781555976644 | Graywolf Pr, January 7, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: "In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford.

Winterward
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Product Description: Poetry. WINTERWARD is the title of the 1954 creative dissertation that William Stafford wrote for his Ph.D. in English at the University of Iowa. This collection contains poems that would eventually be published in West of Your City, Traveling through the Dark, and The Rescued Year...read more
By William Stafford
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9781935635208 | Small Pr Distribution, December 15, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

Everyone Out Here Knows: A Bigfoot Tale
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By Angelina Marino-heidel (illustrator) and William Stafford
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9780983816829 | Arnica Pub Inc, September 30, 2013, cover price $15.00

English Feminists and Their Opponents in the 1790s: Unsex'd and Proper Females
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By William Stafford
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9780719060823 | Manchester Univ Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $75.00

Down in My Heart: Peace Witness in War Time
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Product Description: From 1942 to 1945, William Stafford was interned in camps for conscientious objectors for his refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army. Stafford's memoir of these years offers a rich glimpse into a little-known aspect of World War II and a fascinating look at the formative years of a major American poet...read more
By William Stafford
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9780870710971 | Oregon State Univ Pr, March 30, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: From 1942 to 1945, William Stafford was interned in camps for conscientious objectors for his refusal to be inducted into the U.

The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life
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By Paul Merchant (editor), William Stafford and Vincent Wixon (editor)
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9780472068548 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $19.95

Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
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Product Description: Born the year World War I began, acclaimed poet William Stafford (1914-1993) spent World War II in a camp for conscientious objectors. Throughout a century of conflict he remained convinced that wars simply don’t work. In his writings, Stafford showed it is possible—and crucial—to think independently when fanatics act, and to speak for reconciliation when nations take sides...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Kim R. Stafford (editor) and William Stafford
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9781571312730 | 1 edition (Milkweed Editions, October 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Born the year World War I began, acclaimed poet William Stafford (1914-1993) spent World War II in a camp for conscientious objectors.

The Good Earth: Three Poets of the Prairie
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Product Description: This small book is a companion to the 5th Harvest Lecture and looks at the poetry of Paul Engle, James Hearst and William Stafford through the eyes of Robert Dana, Scott Cawelti and Denise Low with a foreword by Michael Carey.
By Michael Carey (foreword by), Paul Engle, James Hearst, Denise Low (foreword by) and William Stafford
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9781888160093 | Reprint edition (Ice Cube Pr, October 31, 2002), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This small book is a companion to the 5th Harvest Lecture and looks at the poetry of Paul Engle, James Hearst and William Stafford through the eyes of Robert Dana, Scott Cawelti and Denise Low with a foreword by Michael Carey.

A Scripture of Leaves
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Product Description: Collection of poems speaks to the values of peacemaking, simple living, and a deep faith. Stafford uncovers the inner workings of life itself, calling forth images celebrating the goodness of God's creation.
By William Stafford
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9780871780188 | 2 sub edition (Brethren Pr, July 1, 1999), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Collection of poems speaks to the values of peacemaking, simple living, and a deep faith.
9780871785312 | Brethren Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Collection of poems speaks to the values of peacemaking, simple living, and a deep faith.

Way It Is: New & Selected Poems
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Product Description: William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems gathers unpublished works from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as an essential and wide-ranging selection of works from throughout his career...read more
By William Stafford
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9781555972691, titled "The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems" | Graywolf Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents unpublished poems from the poet's last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as a selection of poems from throughout his career

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9781555972844 | Graywolf Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation.
9789990101829 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1999, cover price $0.02

John Stuart Mill
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Product Description: John Stuart Mill was one of Britain's greatest philosophers and radical politicians whose views had a profound influence on thinking on liberty, social policy and gender relations. William Stafford's accessible new study outlines Mill's reputation from his lifetime to the present, together with a discussion of the major areas of his moral and political thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By William Stafford
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9780312216320 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1999, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: John Stuart Mill was one of Britain's greatest philosophers and radical politicians whose views had a profound influence on thinking on liberty, social policy and gender relations.

Down in My Heart
Book by Stafford, William
By William Stafford
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9780870714306 | Oregon State Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.95
9780930769000 | 2 sub edition (Bench Pr, April 1, 1985), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Stafford, William

Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation
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Product Description: "It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Paul Merchant (editor), William Stafford and Vincent Wixon (editor)
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9780472096640 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: "It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation.

Even in Quiet Places: Poems
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This book brings together four privately printed chapbooks and offers them to the general public in one volume. All the poems are in William Stafford's familiar, reflective voice, and some had been freshly typed at the time of Stafford's death in August of 1993. The book is hospitable to a full range of experiences, moods, stunts with language, tones, expressive landmarks, and intimacies with the universe. Long considered a major voice in twentieth century American poetry, William Stafford is also one of our nation's most popular poets.
By William Stafford
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9781881090199 | Confluence Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This book brings together four privately printed chapbooks and offers them to the general public in one volume.

Paperback:

9781881090168 | Confluence Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $11.00

The Methow River Poems.
By William Stafford
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9780614108057 | Midpoint Trade Books Inc, May 1, 1995, cover price $6.00
9781881090182, titled "The Methow River Poems" | Confluence Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $6.00

Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems
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A poetry collection by the late author of The Animal That Drank Up Sound reflects his struggles with the world and his respect for the earth.
By William Stafford
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9780152002084 | Harcourt Childrens Books, December 1, 1994, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A collection of fifty poems which reflect the ways in which we relate to the world around us

The Whole Wide World Pours Down: Remembering William Stafford, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1970-71 : An Occasion at the Library
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By William Stafford
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9780844408446 | Library of Congress, October 1, 1994, cover price $100.00

The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford
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Poems deal with parents, Western landscapes, Native Americans, peace, childhood, nature, and the past (view table of contents)
By Robert Bly (editor) and William Stafford
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9780060969165 | Perennial, December 1, 1993, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Poems deal with parents, Western landscapes, Native Americans, peace, childhood, nature, and the past

The Mozart Myths: A Critical Reassessment
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Product Description: This book is an ambitious attempt to separate what is actually known (and can be known) about Mozart from the many myths and legends that have grown up about his life, character, and death. It subjects individual myths to critical and scholarly scrutiny―weighing the evidence on which it is based, and critically assessing the reliability of that evidence...read more
By William Stafford
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9780804719377 | Stanford Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $59.00

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9780804722223 | Reprint edition (Stanford Univ Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This book is an ambitious attempt to separate what is actually known (and can be known) about Mozart from the many myths and legends that have grown up about his life, character, and death.

The Animal That Drank Up Sound
Product Description: Animates the seasons as winter drinks up summer's green sounds and silences them with a cold blanket of white until springtime returns.
By William Stafford
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9780152007720 | Harcourt Childrens Books, March 1, 1993, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: When a mysterious animal drinks up all sound and leaves the earth frozen and cold, a hidden cricket ushers in the return of spring

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780152035648 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Animates the seasons as winter drinks up summer's green sounds and silences them with a cold blanket of white until springtime returns.

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9780152035631, titled "Animal That Drank Up Sound" | Harcourt Childrens Books, March 1, 1992, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When a mysterious animal drinks up all sound and leaves the earth frozen and cold, a hidden cricket ushers in the return of spring

Holding Onto the Grass
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By William Stafford
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9780917005329 | Honeybrook Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $15.00

Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises 20
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Introduces different kinds of poems, including headline, letter, recipe, list, and monologue, and provides exercises in writing poems based on both memory and imagination
By Stephen Dunning and William Stafford
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9780814118481 | Natl Council of Teachers, November 1, 1992, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Introduces different kinds of poems, including headline, letter, recipe, list, and monologue, and provides exercises in writing poems based on both memory and imagination
9789990845136 | Natl Council of Teachers, November 1, 1992, cover price $0.02

My Name Is William Tell: Poems
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By William Stafford
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9780917652967 | Confluence Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $11.00

The Long Sigh the Wind Makes: Poems by William Stafford
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By William Stafford
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9780962919404 | Adrienne Lee Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $15.00

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